The Pedagogy of Fear and Guilt: How Textbooks Treat the World Economy.

Newitt, Jane

Social Education, v48 n1 p47-48 Jan 1984

The central finding of a review of 63 high school history, geography, civics, and economics textbooks is that the textbooks are not accurately describing the world economy. For example, few of the texts refer to economic gains being made by many countries or mention the existence of middle income countries. (RM)